Bisexuality and Same-Sex Marriage
In our society, the argument for or against same-sex marriage becomes even more heated when the debate turns to bisexual women and men. Bisexuality and Same-Sex Marriage thoughtfully explores this debate from a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives, presenting respected scholars from fields as diverse as American Studies, Communication, Criminology, Human and Organizational Systems, Law and Social Policy, LGBT Studies, Organizational Behavior, Psychology, Sociology, Womens Studies, and Queer Studies. This clear-viewed volume is organized into three perspectivestheoretical, research, and personalthat frame the debate from a macro to micro level of analysis.
This book goes beyond the intense acrimony and divisiveness to rationally examine the issue from various viewpoints and through the latest research. This informative text presents and analyzes in depth the current findings and the diverse LGBT and straight perspectives on the issue. This insightful resource discusses in detail personal views, the latest theories, and is extensively referenced.
Bisexuality and Same-Sex Marriage is an essential volume for LGBT studies, professionals, psychologists, counselors, educators, students, and interested general public.
This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Bisexuality.
M. Paz Galupo is Professor of Psychology and Director of LGBT Studies at Towson University, in Baltimore, Maryland.
Bisexuality and Same-Sex Marriage
Edited by M. Paz Galupo
First published 2009 by Routledge
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CONTENTS
M. Paz Galupo
Jacqueline Battalora
Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo
Kristen Barber
Erica Hunter
Ajnesh Prasad
Angela L. Breno
M. Paz Galupo
Pamela J. Lannutti
Hadar Aviram
M. Paz Galupo
Marcia L. Pearl
Mia Ocean
Hameed (Herukhuti) S. Williams
Laurie J. Kendall
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Regina Reinhardt for her patience and editorial support. Thanks also to the anonymous reviewers of the articles in this volume. Your thoughtful reviews added to the quality and significance of the contributions.
Thanks to Marcia Pearl for our many conversations about research and same-sex marriage and for help in formatting the contributions. I could not have done this without you.
As a researcher with a professional interest in same-sex marriage and marriage equality, I am grateful for the woman who inspires my personal interest on the topicmy partner and wife, Carinand for our daughters (Isabel Pilar, Maya Pilar, and Lucia Pilar) who sustain us. Special thoughts to my sister Pilar, who supported me always and even wore purple to my wedding. I miss you everyday.
M. Paz Galupo
About the Contributors
Hadar Aviram, PhD, is Associate Professor at UC Hastings College of the Law, where she teaches criminal law and socio-legal courses. She holds a PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy is from UC Berkeley. Her previous degrees are in law (LL.B., Hebrew University, Jerusalem) and criminology (M.A., Hebrew University, Jerusalem). Prior to her academic career, she worked as a military defense attorney. Her main research interests include sociology of law, criminology and criminal justice, class, gender and inequality, social movements, and queer theory; this paper is part of a larger project looking at legal consciousness and social activism in the polyamorous community.
Kristen Barber, MA, is a Doctoral Student in the department of Sociology at the University of Southern California. There she is beginning dissertation research focusing on performances of masculinity and sexuality by men in a traditionally feminine context, the hair salon. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, embodiment, popular culture, and qualitative methods. She is published in the Handbook of the New Sexuality Studies. Prior to continuing her graduate studies at the University of Southern California, Barber earned her Masters degree in Sociology from Tulane University.
Jacqueline Battalora, PhD, is Associate Professor of Sociology at Saint Xavier University, Chicago, Illinois. She is currently completing a book project that explores the intersections of race, gender and sexuality in the training and work of police. With Diana Vallera, she is filming, photographing and interviewing women who worked during and in the decades following WWII with an eye toward the challenges they posed to white male dominated spaces and the transformations they helped to shape. She has published articles on white supremacy and race ideology in the U.S.
Angela L. Breno, BA, received her masters degree in Experimental Psychology from Towson University. She is currently a researcher with the Orphan Foundation of America. Her research interests include experiences and outcomes of the child welfare system, women and lesbian health issues, and queer studies.
Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo, MS, received her Masters degree in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is currently a doctoral student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is completing dissertation research on spatio-temporal relations of gender and sexuality in the context of Bangkok, Thailand. Her areas of interest include gender, sexuality, the sociology of the body, immigration, Asian and Asian American studies, the sociology of development, and Southeast Asia with a particular emphasis in Thailand. She is co-editor, with Carl L. Bankston III, of Immigration in U.S. History: An Encyclopedia survey of U.S. Immigration and has authored or co-authored numerous journal articles and book chapters.
Erica Hunter, MA, is a graduate student in Womens Studies and Sociology at the University at Albany. Her research interests focus on the intersection of gender and sexualities in families, marriage as a social institution, heterosexuality, fatherhood, and couple relationships. She is currently working on her dissertation, which examines how heterosexual couples use engagement and marital rituals as a way to symbolically construct their couple status.
Laurie J. Kendall, PhD, is a Visiting Professor in the American Studies department at the University of Maryland, College Park. There, she teaches courses in contemporary American culture, feminist and indigenous theory, ethnographic methods, and lesbian and gay studies. Trained in history and the interdisciplinary programs of American studies, womens studies, and lesbian and gay studies, her areas of interest are broad but her recent work focuses on the ways womyn redefine family, home, and sacred tradition while building a unique culture at the Michigan Womyns Music Festival.
